Description A thoughtful, deeply honest look at the transforming experience of parenthood and how our children can lead us to a more profound understnading of ourselves. 'Live with children long enough and beauty, love, innocence, play, pain, and death, everything appears in a new light...' Children: they have the ability to turn our lives upside down, to disrupt our plans and ...(展开全部)

Description A thoughtful, deeply honest look at the transforming experience of parenthood and how our children can lead us to a more profound understnading of ourselves. 'Live with children long enough and beauty, love, innocence, play, pain, and death, everything appears in a new light...' Children: they have the ability to turn our lives upside down, to disrupt our plans and ...(展开全部)

Critical Lessons concentrates on the critical, reflective thinking that should be taught in high schools. Taking seriously the Socratic advice, 'know thyself', it focuses on topics that will help students to understand the forces - good and bad - that work to socialize them. This 2006 book argues why critical thinking is necessary in schools because it requires the discussion o...(展开全部)

内尔·诺丁斯(Nel Noddings)，博士，美国斯坦福大学荣誉退休教授，美国教育哲学协会和约翰·杜威研究协会前任主席。她的主要著作包括：《关心：伦理和道德教育的女性观点》（1984）、《女性与罪恶》（1989）、《学会关心——教育的另一种模式》（1992）、《培养智慧的信仰和反叛》（1993）、《教育哲学》（1995）、《始于家庭：关怀与社会政策》（2002）、《培养道德的人：以关怀伦理替代人格教育》（2002），以及最新出版的《幸福与教育》（2003），等等。同时她也是170篇文章的作者。这些著作和文章的内容涉猎从关怀伦理到数学分析等广泛问题，在学术界受到高度关注，并具有国际影响。诺丁斯曾经在美国公立学校任职15年，先后从事教学、行政和课程开发工作。她曾经担任新泽西州中学数学教研部主任、芝加哥大学杜威实验学校和斯坦福大学教育学院院长。在斯坦福大...(展开全部)

Fresh on the heals of the successful What Dogs Teach Us, author Glenn Dromgoole offers the similarly insightful What Cats Teach Us. Cats, better known for their reprimanding attitudes towards humans, still have much to teach. From keeping fastidious grooming habits, eating a healthy fish diet and getting plenty of rest to nurturing your independent spirit, expressing your indiv...(展开全部)

A deeply comforting and enlightening book on how Stoicism can inspire us to lead more enjoyable lives What aspects of your life do you really control? What do you do when you cannot guarantee that things will turn out in your favour? And what can Stoicism teach us about how to live together? In the past few years, Stoicism has been making a comeback. But what exactly did the St...(展开全部)

约翰·塞拉斯 伦敦大学皇家霍洛威学院哲学讲师，牛津大学沃尔夫森学院成员，“现代斯多葛学派”的创始人之一。“斯多葛主义周”是一个全球性的年度活动，邀请公众“像斯多葛主义者一样生活一周”，看看这么做会如何改善他们的生活。 他的研究重点是古代哲学，特别是古罗马时期斯多葛主义及其影响。他的第一本书《生活的艺术》研究了斯多葛哲学在作为一种生活方式的更广泛的哲学概念中的定位方式。他的第二本书《斯多葛主义》被评论家描述为“优秀”“杰出 ”“该主题的最佳介绍”。最近，他编辑了《斯多葛传统手册》，描绘了斯多葛思想从古代到现在的影响。他的第三本专著《希腊化哲学》于2018年由牛津大学出版社出版。此后，他写了一本关于马可·奥勒留的专著，捍卫了他作为一个完全致力于斯多葛主义的严肃哲学家的地位。他还为企鹅兰登出版公司撰写了一些通俗书籍，并被翻译成多种语言。 他是英文版《沉思录...(展开全部)

Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her and the way people worked. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. But, without the blueprint to life she was hoping for, Camilla began to create her own. Now armed with a PhD in b...(展开全部)

Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her and the way people worked. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. But, without the blueprint to life she was hoping for, Camilla began to create her own. Now armed with a PhD in b...(展开全部)

Brian Massumi is Professor in the Communication Department at the University of Montreal. He is the author of Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts and Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, which is also published by Duke University Press.